The men's 1500 metre freestywe event at de 1972 Owympic Games took pwace between September 3 and 4.[1] This swimming event used freestywe swimming, which means dat de medod of de stroke is not reguwated (unwike backstroke, breaststroke, and butterfwy events). Nearwy aww swimmers use de front craww or a variant of dat stroke. Because an Owympic-size swimming poow is 50 metres wong, dis race consisted of 30 wengds of de poow.